Technical Writing in the Digital Age: Difference between revisions

* Progress Reports. These are used to inform management about the progress or status of a project.

* White papers and Briefings. These educate management or clients about important issues.

* Incident Reports. These objectively focus on presenting facts relating to an accident or irregular occurrence.

* Laboratory Reports. These describe experiments, tests, or inspections.

Résumés offer an overview of an individual’s educational credentials and professional experience and often are used to demonstrate an applicant’s qualifications to potential employers. {{sfn|Johnson-Sheehan|2018|p=100}} They may be organized in various ways, but two common approaches are chronologically and by skills. Chronological résumés demonstrate the sequence of education and employment history and detail a person’s tasks, responsibilities, and achievements in each successive role. Skills résumés provide employment history, but the primary focus is to highlight how an individual applied distinct skills and experiences across various professional positions. {{sfn|Markel|Selber|2019|pp=411-412}}

With the rise of digital technology, technical writing has had to adapt to the needs of a digital era. The predominant impact of such a revolution was that it made technical communication more accessible by increasing the breadth of its viewers. The World Wide Web is public and, thus, can be accessed by anyone with access to the Internet. Such a phenomenon can be exploited to increase the audience of a virtual document.  

A content management system (CMS) is a software application that allows users to create, manage, and modify digital content on a website. It provides a user-friendly interface and tools to easily organize, publish, and update content, including text, images, videos, and documents. Additionally, CMSs often offer features like user permissions, version control, and SEO optimization to enhance the overall website management experience. {{sfn|Carroll|2006|p=129}}